Index: gdb-8.0/gdb/remote.c
===================================================================
--- gdb-8.0.orig/gdb/remote.c
+++ gdb-8.0/gdb/remote.c
@@ -6939,7 +6939,7 @@ Packet: '%s'\n"),
 	  else if (strprefix (p, p1, "exec"))
 	    {
 	      ULONGEST ignored;
-	      char pathname[PATH_MAX];
+	      char *pathname = NULL;
 	      int pathlen;
 
 	      /* Determine the length of the execd pathname.  */
@@ -6948,12 +6948,14 @@ Packet: '%s'\n"),
 
 	      /* Save the pathname for event reporting and for
 		 the next run command.  */
+	      pathname = (char *) xmalloc(pathlen + 1);
 	      hex2bin (p1, (gdb_byte *) pathname, pathlen);
 	      pathname[pathlen] = '\0';
 
 	      /* This is freed during event handling.  */
 	      event->ws.value.execd_pathname = xstrdup (pathname);
 	      event->ws.kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD;
+	      xfree (pathname);
 
 	      /* Skip the registers included in this packet, since
 		 they may be for an architecture different from the